Usually means: Insect that buries carcasses for reproduction.
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  1. burying beetle: Merriam-Webster
  2. burying beetle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. burying beetle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. burying beetle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. burying beetle: Wordnik
  6. burying beetle: Wiktionary
  7. burying beetle: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Burying beetle, burying beetle: Dictionary.com
  9. Burying beetle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. burying beetle: FreeDictionary.org
  11. burying beetle: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  sexton beetle; necrophore

Similar:
carrion beetle, sexton beetle, necrophore, sexton, scavenger beetle, rove beetle, coffin fly, paracoprid, bacon beetle, spring beetle, more...

Opposite:
exhume, unearth, disinter

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Similar:
carrion beetle, sexton beetle, necrophore, sexton, scavenger beetle, rove beetle, coffin fly, paracoprid, bacon beetle, spring beetle, more...

Opposite:
exhume, unearth, disinter



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